From: Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bitkeeper licence issues
Date: 19 Mar 2002 08:21:00 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrna9dt7c.nqc.kraxel@bytesex.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020318212617.GA498@elf.ucw.cz> <20020318144255.Y10086@work.bitmover.com> <20020318231427.GF1740@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> <20020319002241.K17410@suse.de> <20020318180233.D10086@work.bitmover.com>
> The reason we didn't use shar, Pavel, is that we are shipping a binary.
> If we used shar that would increase the size of the image that you download
> and we wanted downloads to be fast. As it is, I think it's a couple of MB.
I don't like the binary installer that much too.
Why don't you ship a tarball with a install script within the tarball
(like vmware does for example)? That would make downloads even smaller
for people with bzip2 installed as you can easily provide both .tar.gz
and .tar.bz2 ...
Gerd
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-19 8:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-18 21:26 Bitkeeper licence issues Pavel Machek
2002-03-18 22:42 ` Larry McVoy
2002-03-18 23:14 ` Pavel Machek
2002-03-18 23:22 ` Dave Jones
2002-03-18 23:43 ` Pavel Machek
2002-03-19 8:35 ` Rik van Riel
2002-03-19 2:02 ` Larry McVoy
2002-03-19 8:21 ` Gerd Knorr [this message]
2002-03-19 15:11 ` Larry McVoy
2002-03-19 21:58 ` Pavel Machek
2002-03-19 22:04 ` Larry McVoy
[not found] ` <20020319215800.GN12260@atrey.karlin.m__.cuni.cz>
2002-03-20 22:42 ` Ton Hospel
2002-03-19 22:06 ` Pavel Machek
2002-03-19 23:25 ` Larry McVoy
2002-03-19 23:27 ` David S. Miller
2002-03-19 23:44 ` Larry McVoy
2002-03-19 23:45 ` David S. Miller
2002-03-19 23:54 ` Matthew Kirkwood
2002-03-19 23:56 ` Ben Collins
2002-03-20 17:23 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-03-20 17:51 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-20 18:04 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-03-20 20:34 ` Neil Booth
2002-03-19 23:34 ` Tom Rini
2002-03-20 0:09 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-24 11:44 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-03-20 7:57 ` Alexander Viro
2002-03-19 0:00 ` yodaiken
2002-03-19 1:29 ` David S. Miller
2002-03-19 1:18 ` Roman Zippel
2002-03-19 1:37 ` David S. Miller
2002-03-19 18:42 ` Roman Zippel
2002-03-19 19:09 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-19 20:01 ` Shane Nay
2002-03-19 23:08 ` Rik van Riel
2002-03-19 23:19 ` Robert Love
2002-03-19 23:26 ` Rik van Riel
2002-03-19 23:42 ` Davide Libenzi
2002-03-19 23:31 ` yodaiken
2002-03-19 23:47 ` Larry McVoy
2002-03-20 0:02 ` Thomas Dodd
2002-03-20 0:19 ` Theodore Tso
2002-03-20 0:57 ` Petko Manolov
2002-03-21 19:44 ` Mark H. Wood
2002-03-21 20:29 ` Shane Nay
2002-03-27 14:40 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2002-03-20 0:05 ` James Simmons
2002-03-19 20:35 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-03-20 0:14 ` Kurt Ferreira
2002-03-20 2:16 ` Greg Hennessy
2002-03-20 0:57 ` Richard Gooch
2002-03-21 19:14 ` Roman Zippel
2002-03-21 20:54 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-22 0:02 ` Roman Zippel
2002-03-19 1:44 ` Anton Altaparmakov
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